Slide Guitars

Lesson 4/37 | Study Time: 5 Min
Course: Slide Guitar
Slide Guitars

Slide Guitars

Steel String Acoustic

Steel String Acoustic

The steel string is mainly used with fingerpicking acoustic guitar players. More recently Leo Kottke and Ry Cooder have dominated the steel string acoustic.

Electric

Popular Electric Slide Guitars

The Chicago Blues era of the fifties gave birth to a new age of slide guitarists. The Chicago Blues Men influenced many guitar players in the sixties onwards, such as Johnny Winter, Mick Taylor, George Thorogood and Duane Allman.

Dobro

Dobro

The guitar which perhaps relates to the slide sound more than any other is the Dobro. It has a metal resonator which helps produce a bright, metallic sound perfect for slide guitar.

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Class Sessions

1- SECTION FOUR - STANDARD TUNING SLIDE GUITAR 2- INTRODUCTION 3- Types of Slides 4- Open Tunings 5- Open G and A Tuning 6- Left Hand Technique 7- Fingerstyle Exercises 8- Right Hand Technique 9- Slide Scales 10- Open E and Open D Tuning 11- Basic Slide Exercises 12- Setting up the Guitar 13- The Major Bar Chord - Open G/A 14- Chord Diagrams 15- The Major Bar Chord - Open E/D 16- Standard Tuning Slide Scale 17- Open G or Open A Tuning Slide Scale 18- Notation 19- Slide Guitars 20- Slide Solo 21- Vibrato 22- Standard Tuning Exercises 23- Open G/A Tuning Scale Exercises 24- Music and Tablature Symbols 25- Slide Solo No. 1 26- Open E or Open D Tuning Slide Scale 27- Slide Solo No. 2 28- Open G or Open A Tuning Slide Scale - Open Position 29- Open E or Open D Exercises 30- Slide Solo No.4 31- Open E/D Tuning Slide Scale - Open Position 32- Open Position Slide Scale - Key of E 33- Slide Solo No. 3 34- Open G/A Tuning Slide Exercises - Open Position 35- Open Position Exercises 36- Standard Tuning Exercises - Open Position 37- Slide Solo No.5 - The Turnaround

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